Swamp Water

Swamp Water
Theatrical poster
Directed byJean Renoir
Screenplay byDudley Nichols
Based onSwamp Water by Vereen Bell
Produced byIrving Pichel
StarringWalter Brennan
Walter Huston
Anne Baxter
Dana Andrews
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Lucien Ballard
Edited byWalter Thompson
Music byDavid Buttolph
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 23, 1941 (1941-10-23)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$601,900[1]

Swamp Water is a 1941 American film noir crime film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Walter Brennan, Walter Huston and Anne Baxter. Based on the novel by Vereen Bell, it was produced at 20th Century Fox. The film was shot on location at Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia, USA. It was Renoir's first American film. The film was remade in 1952 as Lure of the Wilderness, directed by Jean Negulesco.

  1. ^ Rudy Behlmer, Ed, Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck, Grove Press, 1993 p54